Fred, staying with friends Michael and Elizabeth, explains his current project.
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Fred: I am on a quest.
Elizabeth: Which is…?
Fred: I want to find perfectly formed conversations.
Elizabeth: Are there such things?
Fred: Just as there are many perfect poems, especially short ones, like haiku, so I think short conversations can a kind poem.
Elizabeth: Conversations as poems? Like when you say to the Chinese baker, “One wholemeal,” and she replies, “Two dollar fifty, love.” Short, but hardly poetic.
Fred: No, not that, it needs a bit more, like words, sensitivity of mood, rhythm.
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Voiceover
Can a conversation be a poem? Can a street seller’s chant be like an aria? Can a cave painting be seen as art? Can a chair be viewed as a sculpture?
Fred’s quest has parallels in fields where a mundane object can be made with sufficient, effort, craft and care that it has value beyond its use.
Elizabeth: Which is…?
Fred: I want to find perfectly formed conversations.
Elizabeth: Are there such things?
Fred: Just as there are many perfect poems, especially short ones, like haiku, so I think short conversations can a kind poem.
Elizabeth: Conversations as poems? Like when you say to the Chinese baker, “One wholemeal,” and she replies, “Two dollar fifty, love.” Short, but hardly poetic.
Fred: No, not that, it needs a bit more, like words, sensitivity of mood, rhythm.
__________
Voiceover
Can a conversation be a poem? Can a street seller’s chant be like an aria? Can a cave painting be seen as art? Can a chair be viewed as a sculpture?
Fred’s quest has parallels in fields where a mundane object can be made with sufficient, effort, craft and care that it has value beyond its use.
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